Sacred Heart Health System is Northwest Florida's leading provider of high quality health care to children and adults.

The hub of the Health System is the 566-bed Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola that includes the region's only facility specializing in the care of children â€“ the Studer Family Children's Hospital at Sacred Heart.

Major regional services based in Pensacola also include the Regional Heart and Vascular Institute, the area's leading Stroke Center, a Level II Trauma Center, a Cancer Center affiliated with MD Anderson Cancer Network, and a large regional network of 150 physicians with offices stretching from Foley, Ala. to Apalachicola, Fla.

In 2003, the Health System opened Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, a 58-bed community hospital in Walton County, near Destin, Fla.Â Sacred Heart on the Emerald Coast that is rated among the top hospitals in the United States for patient satisfaction.Â

Sacred Heart is affiliated with Bay Medical Center in Panama City through a joint venture with LHP Hospital Group.Â In 2016, Sacred Heart formally joined with Providence Health System in Mobile, Ala., which like Sacred Heart, is a member of Ascension, the nation's largest Catholic, nonprofit health system. Â Ascension and Sacred Heart are committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. For more information, call 850-416-7000.

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Sacred Heart Surgeon Now Seeing Patients Full-Time in Port St. Joe

Posted: 10/20/2012

Dr. Richard Brunner

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. – Sacred Heart Medical Group has announced that Dr. Richard Brunner, a board-certified general surgeon, will be relocating his practice from Marianna so he can serve full-time in his office at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf beginning Nov. 1.

''We look forward to expanding Dr. Brunner's practice in Port St. Joe,'' Roger Hall, President, Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf, said. ''This move will improve the level of care for patients in Gulf and Franklin Counties, while also bringing more surgeries and patients to the hospital.''

Dr. Brunner joined Sacred Heart Medical Group in 2010 and has practiced as the chief surgeon at Sacred Heart since the hospital opened. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences and performed his residency training in surgery at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in Jacksonville. He has broad experience performing general surgery using minimally invasive, laparoscopic techniques. He also is trained in thoracic, vascular, gynecologic and trauma surgery. For more information or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Brunner, please call (850) 229-5833.

About Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf

Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf opened in 2010 to serve residents of Gulf, Franklin and Bay counties. The 19-bed facility in Port St. Joe features 24-hour emergency services, inpatient services, surgical services, a full complement of diagnostic and laboratory services, and a helipad to be used by Sacred Heart's regional air ambulance service to provide rapid transport for trauma or critically ill patients. The hospital is operated by Sacred Heart Health System based in Pensacola and a part of Ascension Health, the nation's largest system of Catholic, not-for-profit healthcare facilities. For more information about Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf, visit online at www.sacredheartonthegulf.org, find us on Facebook or call (850) 229-5600

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